American firms learned that once they have thousands of resources in India it's more cost effective to just hire them as direct employees instead of going through an outsourcing company. In the long run this probably works out better for everyone, except the owners of the outsourcing companies.
>it's more cost effective to just hire them as direct employees
it also makes it easier to bring them later (after 1 year) into US on L1 without all these limitation of H1 like prevailing wage, yearly cap, spouse of L1 can work, GC seems to be easier (at least that seemed to be the case 10 years ago when I last paid attention to immigration)
Well german firms aren't there yet in my opinion. They propagate offshoring as the opportunity to lower costs by 90% while preserving the same quality. In my company the last "transformation" talk made clear that no department will be left untouched in the next off and near shoring activities..
Which german company? That sounds stupid. I think no company profited from that over the long term, ever. Management must be stupid to think 90% of costs can be cut... if anything, costs may go up